List of tallest buildings and structures in the United Kingdom by usage

This is a list of the tallest buildings and structures in the United Kingdom by usage.

Tallest castles
* Estimated height

Tallest residential buildings

 * The tallest partly residential building - containing the highest apartments - is the 309.6 m Shard, London.

Tallest commercial buildings
The tallest partly commercial building - containing the highest offices - is the 309.6 m Shard, London.

Tallest hotels

 * The tallest partly hotel building is the 309.6 m Shard, London.
 * The Beetham Tower, Manchester is 169 m tall of which half, up to and including the 23rd floor, is a hotel.
 * 10 Holloway Circus, Birmingham is 130 m tall; the lower 19 floors are occupied by a hotel.

Tallest cinema buildings
Cineworld Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland) - 62 m

Tallest structures
Skelton transmitting station (Skelton, Cumbria) - 365 m
 * Tallest guyed mast

Emley Moor transmitting station (Emley, West Yorkshire) - 330 m
 * Tallest freestanding structure

Drax Power Station (Drax, North Yorkshire) - 259 m
 * Tallest chimney

Crystal Palace transmitting station 219 m
 * Tallest free-standing lattice tower

Samsung Heavy Industries 7 MW wind turbine prototype 196 m
 * Tallest wind turbine

400 kV Thames Crossing 190.5 m
 * Tallest electricity pylon

Queensferry Crossing (Lothian and Fife) - 207 m
 * Tallest bridge

Spinnaker Tower (Portsmouth, Hampshire) - 170 m
 * Tallest observation tower

London Eye (Lambeth, London) - 135 m
 * Tallest ferris wheel

Wembley Stadium (Brent, London) - 133 m
 * Tallest stadium

Skerryvore Lighthouse (Skerryvore, Scotland) - 48 m
 * Tallest lighthouse

Salisbury Cathedral (Salisbury, Wiltshire) - 123 m
 * Tallest church spire

Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower (Birmingham, West Midlands) - 100 m
 * Tallest clock tower

Millennium Dome (Greenwich, London) - 95 m
 * Tallest domed building

Grimsby Dock Tower (Grimsby, Lincolnshire) - 94 m
 * Tallest water tower

Lovell Telescope (Goostrey, Cheshire) - 89 m
 * Tallest telescope

Heathrow Air Traffic Control Tower (Hillingdon, London) - 87 m
 * Tallest air traffic control tower

Wallace Monument (Stirling, Scotland) - 67 m
 * Tallest monument

Hyperia (Thorpe Park, Chertsey, Surrey) - 72 m
 * Tallest rollercoaster

ArcelorMittal Orbit (Stratford, London) - 115 m
 * Tallest sculpture

The Pagoda (Richmond upon Thames, London) - 50 m
 * Tallest pagoda

Birmingham Central mosque (Birmingham) - 45.7 m
 * Tallest mosque

Moulton Windmill (Moulton, Lincolnshire) - 30 m
 * Tallest windmill

Angel of the North (Gateshead, Tyne and Wear) - 20 m
 * Tallest statue

Dream (St Helens, Merseyside) - 20 m